Approach

Hexagram 19 · (Lín)

Upper: Earth · Lower: Lake

Judgment (卦辞)

Approach has supreme success. Perseverance furthers. When the eighth month comes, there will be misfortune.

Image (象辞)

The earth above the lake: the image of Approach. Thus the superior person is inexhaustible in their will to teach.

Structure

Upper Trigram

Earth

Lower Trigram

Lake